Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS PRICING ACT 1983

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Relationship to other Acts, etc.  

   PART II -- Administration  

   5.      Commissioner  
   6.      Object and purposes  
   7.      General administration, and the powers and duties of the Commissioner  
   8.      Prices advisory committees  
   9.      Terms of office of members of committees  

   PART III -- Regulation of prices and rates  

           Division 1 -- Declaration of goods and services  

   10.     Declaration of goods and services  
   11.     Procedure when increase in price or rate of declared goods or declared service proposed  

           Division 2 -- Determination of maximum prices and rates for goods and services  

   12.     Determination of maximum prices and rates  
   13.     Power of Minister to suspend order  

           Division 3 -- Enforcement of maximum prices and rates  

   14.     Offence to sell goods at price higher than maximum price or supply service at rate higher than maximum rate  
   15.     Delivery of goods less in quantity than, or of inferior quality to, those sold  
   16.     Alterations in mode of packing or recipe or formula  
   17.     Price or rate of controlled goods or service to be specified separately  
   18.     Power of Commissioner to prohibit certain transactions  
   19.     Refusal to sell goods at fixed price  
   20.     Refusal to supply service at fixed rate  
   21.     Refusal to sell or supply unless other goods or services are also purchased  
   22.     “Offer” includes notification of price or rate  

   PART IIIA -- Special provisions about motor fuel  

           Division 1 -- Before retail sale  

   22A.    Definitions  
   22B.    Price at terminal to be displayed and Commissioner to be notified of changes  
   22C.    Previous month’s average price to be displayed  
   22D.    Maximum price to be displayed  
   22E.    Price to be compared to maximum price fixed  
   22F.    Information that supplier is to provide  
   22G.    Obligation to supply from declared terminal  

           Division 2 -- Retail sale  

   22H.    Definitions  
   22I.    Regulations to require retailers to display prices  
   22J.    Regulations requiring notification of, and restricting change of, price  

   PART IV -- Obtaining information  

   23.     Power of Commissioner to inquire, investigate, and obtain information  
   24.     Sufficient notice to be given to enable questions, etc. to be answered  
   25.     Failure to supply information  
   26.     Obstructing Commissioner  
   27.     Power of Commissioner to require returns  
   27A.    Further powers of Commissioner to obtain information  
   27B.    Publication by Commissioner of information  
   28.     “Commissioner” includes other officers  

   PART V -- Offences and penalties  

           Division 1 -- General provisions  

   29.     Liability of officers etc., of body corporate  
   30.     Court may order refund of amount paid in excess of maximum price or rate  
   31.     Limitation period for prosecutions  

           Division 2 -- Infringement notices  

   31A.    Infringement notices  
   31B.    Giving of notice  
   31C.    Content of notice  
   31D.    Extension of time  
   31E.    Withdrawal of notice  
   31F.    Benefit of paying modified penalty  
   31G.    Application of penalties collected  
   31H.    Appointment of authorised persons  

   PART VI -- Miscellaneous  

   32.     Application of orders and notices  
   32A.    Delegation by Commissioner  
   32B.    Protection from liability for wrongdoing  
   32C.    Judicial notice  
   33.     Secrecy  
   34.     Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Certain exclusions from definition of “petroleum product”  
           Compilation table